Cosmic Collision (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

Cosmic Collision

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A Southwest Research Institute-led study has connected a specific asteroid collision in the main belt to an inner-solar-system-wide bombardment episode that may have had measurable biological and geological consequences on Earth and Mars. The research linked the catastrophic breakup of the Eulalia parent body with an impact shower that struck the Moon and terrestrial planets 800 million years ago.

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Southwest Research Institute/Don Davis

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